Located at the Fort Ross State Historic Park within The Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary, the Fort Ross Conservancy works to promote coastal preservation, conservation, education and ...

Just by eating sea urchins and destructive shellfish, sea otters are keeping kelp forests healthy and coastal erosion at bay.

Kelp forests are important to the environment in many ways: as a nursery ground for different marine life, a vital part of the marine food chain, barriers to coastline erosion and a major part of ...

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Sea urchins have been disappearing underwater, far from beaches and boardwalks, and at first hardly anyone noticed. Divers were the first to sense something was off. Then, fishers began to see the ...

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New research has uncovered a mass die-off of sea urchins living in the Canary Islands—one that could signal an ongoing marine pandemic. Reading time 3 minutes An apocalyptic serial killer of sea ...

The horn shark seemed to escape, but the moment reveals surprising overlap between otter and shark habitats. Person in critical condition after being shot in incident involving Border Patrol in ...

The mass mortality event was documented in the Canary Islands Researchers now fear that the pattern observed in the Canary Islands mortality event will also emerge in other regions around the world, ...

When Jessica Fujii was in kindergarten, she drew a picture of her future. In a “What do you want to be when you grow up?” booklet, she skipped ballerina and veterinarian, and wrote down something else ...

It’s 6:15 a.m. and still half dark. A small, powerful dive boat cuts through the glassy waters of Port Gamble Bay, its engine roaring as it heads into Puget Sound. On board? A two-man crew, wetsuits ...